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The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X::The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Platforms don't have ethics. They're software, not people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Platforms have the ethics of the people administrating them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And designing them. Anything coded has the biases of the people who made them baked in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Software is shipped with a license. There are licenses that are more or less ethical.